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A set of images of the Venus south polar vortex in infrared light (at 3.8 microns) acquired by the Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer instrument on ESA's Venus Express spacecraft. The images show the temperature of the cloud tops at about 65 km (40.4 miles) altitude. A darker region corresponds to higher temperature and thus lower altitude. The center of the vortex, at a temperature of about 250K (around minus 9.7 degrees Fahrenheit), is the deepest zone, exhibiting the highest temperature. (Credit: ESA/VIRTIS/INAF-IASF/Obs. de Paris-LESIA)

Venus Weather Not Boring After All, Scientists Discover

1 posted on 09/27/2011 5:44:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

When are they going to find a planet out there that is “BETTER” than earth?

It seems odd that Earth would be the best planet in the entire universe, what are the odds on that?

As big as the universe is, there should be a Utopian planet out there.


4 posted on 09/27/2011 5:48:46 PM PDT by CGalen
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To: SunkenCiv

Colonoscophy photos?


5 posted on 09/27/2011 5:50:43 PM PDT by cripplecreek (A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Unless they find those green-skin Orion slave girls there, or maybe Venetian amazonian women, then Venus is way to boring for me. I don’t care what the weather is like.


8 posted on 09/27/2011 6:10:06 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: SunkenCiv

It looks like bronchoscopy just beyond the bifurcation of the trachae, looking into the right and left bronchi.


10 posted on 09/27/2011 6:20:50 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter (I ou)
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To: SunkenCiv

What a stupid headline. I defy them to find any past quote from any credible astronomer describing the weather of Venus as “boring”


11 posted on 09/27/2011 6:28:51 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Public employee unions are the barbarian hordes of our time.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Mother nature will often repeat herself with the same shapes for different applications.


13 posted on 09/28/2011 11:58:08 AM PDT by Sawdring
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To: SunkenCiv

Only someone sucking on the government teat would find it “no boring”.

Who cares about the weather on Venus and what does it have to do with anything important?


15 posted on 09/28/2011 12:39:08 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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